The Washington Capitals ended the Boston Bruins' seven-game road winning streak on Saturday, taking a 2-1 victory after a surprise third-period goal from Alexander Semin caught visiting netminder Tim Thomas off guard. "I didn't know Semin was just going to come down and shoot it," Thomas said after Semin stole the puck, moved past two Bruins defenders and ripped a shot over the Boston netminder's glove.
"There's not that many times when a guy has that much time to wind up for a slap shot like that." In other action, Milan Michalek and captain Patrick Marleau scored breakaway goals midway through the third period as the San Jose Sharks edged the Detroit Red Wings 6-5 in a battle between the top two teams in the Western Conference. Corey Perry scored twice and Jonas Hiller stopped all 30 shots he faced as the Anaheim Ducks recorded a 3-0 win over the Minnesota Wild, while Peter Mueller and Mikkel Boedker both scored as the Phoenix Coyotes posted a 4-3 triumph over the Calgary Flames.
Jay Bouwmeester completed a three-goal outburst in the second period with one second remaining in the session as the Florida Panthers hung on to post a 4-3 success over the Tampa Bay Lightning, while Zach Bogosian and Ilya Kovalchuk both netted for the Atlanta Thrashers as they cruised to a comfortable 7-2 win of the Nashville Predators. Martin Havlat scored 83 seconds into overtime to lift the Chicago Blackhawks to a 2-1 victory over the St Louis Blues, while the Montreal Canadiens recorded a 5-4 triumph over the Ottawa Senators following a shoot-out.
Mike Ribeiro recorded a goal and an assist in regulation before scoring in the shoot-out, lifting the Dallas Stars to a 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Kings. * The National Staff
Conflict, drought, famine
Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
Band Aid
Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
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Intellectually curious and thought-provoking, Tonight’s Chat moves the conversation forward.
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One calorie, is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1°C.
A kilocalorie represents a 1,000 true calories of energy.
Energy density figures are often quoted as calories per serving, with one gram of fat in food containing nine calories, and a gram of protein or carbohydrate providing about four.
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